Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install gitbackup

local Homebrew formula metadata

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Tool to backup your Bitbucket, GitHub and GitLab repositories

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

gitbackup

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

gitbackup is a Go command-line tool for backing up repositories from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Forgejo. It is aimed at users and teams that want local or migration-style copies of hosted Git repositories.

Projektgeschichte

Amit Saha's project dates back to at least 2017, when the README pointed readers of a Linux Journal article to the lj-0.1 era of the source. The tool grew from repository cloning into a broader backup utility with service-specific authentication, OS-specific configuration paths, Docker images, and a GitHub migration mode.

Adoptionsgeschichte

gitbackup serves a practical niche rather than a broad platform role: independent developers, consultants, and organizations that want a repeatable backup path for repositories spread across hosted forges. Homebrew packaging gave macOS users a direct installation path, while release binaries and containers cover other deployments.

Wie es verwendet wird

Practitioners configure service tokens, choose a provider, and run gitbackup to clone repositories into a backup directory. GitHub users can also use migration-oriented commands that retrieve archive artifacts supported by GitHub's Migration API.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

The package is a reminder that source hosting is not a backup strategy by itself. In package-manager terms, gitbackup wraps forge APIs, Git clone behavior, and host-specific credentials into one installable disaster-recovery utility.

Zeitleiste

2017: v0.1-era source associated with a Linux Journal backup article.
2019: 0.4 and 0.5 release tags followed the early Go CLI line.
2021: 0.6 added the documented GitHub OAuth device flow.
2026: README described commercial support by Common Loop Works Pty Ltd.

Related projects

Git provides the clone and repository data model.
GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Forgejo provide the hosted repository APIs.
GitHub's Migration API supplies the archive-based GitHub backup mode.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risikoklassifikator

blue Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · tool

Warum

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signale

text:backup

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Build-Metadaten listen 1 Build-Abhängigkeiten.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Linux: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gitbackup/gitbackup.yml~/.config/gitbackup/gitbackup.yml
macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/gitbackup/gitbackup.yml

Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`gitbackup`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

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Seite generiert2026-07-25

Manager-Version1.3.1

Manager aktualisiert2026-07-23

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamaktuell

neueste erkannte Versionv1.3.1

https://github.com/amitsaha/gitbackup

OKEs wurden keine Aktualitätswarnungen generiert.

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:gitbackup
Version	1.3.1
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gitbackup
Homepage	https://github.com/amitsaha/gitbackup
Repository	https://github.com/amitsaha/gitbackup
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://github.com/amitsaha/gitbackup#readme
Lizenz	MIT
Quellarchiv	https://github.com/amitsaha/gitbackup/archive/refs/tags/v1.3.1.tar.gz
Zuletzt aktualisiert	2026-07-23T00:41:26-04:00
Pulse	updated
Build-Abhängigkeiten	go
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	gitbackup
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

Paketgraph

Links stammen aus dem lokalen Paketbeziehungsgraph, Ergänzungen, Abhängigkeitskanten, Ecosystem-Matches und Paket-Hub-Mitgliedschaft.

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/gitbackup.yml

Verwendete Quellen

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

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